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Media Production Team Streamlining Adobe Frame.io and DaVinci Resolve
Company Situation
The company operates within media production, supporting multiple organizations including a church and commercial companies such as a truck shop. The team is a mix of paid staff and numerous volunteers, with workflows spanning video and photo content creation for different entities. The company manages content for small to mid-sized organizations with budget constraints and a need for clear separation of assets across companies and projects.
Existing Workflow
Currently, the company uses Adobe Frame.io for collaborative video editing and content management. They handle multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining separation between companies’ assets manually. Volunteers contribute large volumes of photos and videos, which the company must then organize, review, and manage storage for. Editing tools include Adobe and free video editing software like DaVinci Resolve.
Issues with the Existing Workflow
High costs and complex licensing of Adobe products, especially burdensome for smaller organizations like the church.
Difficulty maintaining clear separation of assets across multiple companies and projects.
Managing large volumes of volunteer-generated content, including many duplicate or poor-quality photos that consume storage unnecessarily.
Limited automation in filtering out blurry or duplicate images, requiring time-consuming manual curation.
Challenges in enforcing workflow discipline among volunteers who upload large batches of photos without quality control.
Frustration with vendor lock-in and ecosystem constraints from Adobe products.
How Shade Would Change Their Workflow
Shade offers a more cost-effective, streamlined digital asset management platform that integrates with existing editing workflows as an attachable drive. It enables clearer permission controls and company-specific workspace separation, reducing the risk of cross-contamination of assets. Shade’s AI-powered features, including facial recognition and asset filtering, assist in identifying blurry or duplicate images to ease storage management. This supports the company’s need to manage large volumes of volunteer content more efficiently without extensive manual intervention. Shade’s open approach avoids vendor lock-in, allowing integration with free and alterdirect NLE access via cloud-mounted storage tools.
Benefits
- Significant cost savings compared to Adobe’s licensing fees.
- Simplified management of multiple company projects with clear separation and permission controls.
- AI-assisted filtering reduces manual time spent on deleting duplicates and poor-quality images.
- Improved collaboration with volunteers by providing clearer asset management without heavy oversight.
- Flexibility to integrate with a variety of editing tools beyond Adobe.
- Reduced storage costs by managing asset quality and duplicates proactively.
Technologies Used
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